I recently 'converted' myself to Gentoo Linux coming from SuSE. Now, I'm a total noob but I must say, I have learned a lot of linux just by following the Gentoo manual and installing it. I have 2 laptops and one of them is perfectly configured and working like I want it to be, but with the other (a P3 867MHz) I've got some problems:
1. The splash: I use Spock's Gensplash, because I believe in Gentoo's innovative developers
And everything is working fine except that when the progress bar is moving there are a lot of small horizontal lines, somewhat like a distortion. It's like there is something wrong with the syncs. In verbose mode i have the same thing... When the text is scrolling there are these small lines... I use GRUB as bootloader and make use of the 'tridentfb' (I supported it in the kernel) ... so my kernel line in grub.conf looks like
Code:
kernel /kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda3 video=tridentfb:1024x768-32@70 splash=silent,theme:emergence
I used the tridentfb because in the laptop is a Trident Cyberblade i1 present... Maybe one of you guys knows what the hell is wrong with it :d ... When it switches from silent to verbose mode the screen is totally f*cked up at the beginning because only in back of letters the background updates to the verbose picture. Eventually letters have been everywhere on the screen and the complete verbose background is visible, very weird though... (Ow, I also tried the new generatoin vesafb-tng but then the splash simply doesn't work and boots in 640x480 resolution.) As a remark I just want to say that I emerged KDE 3.3.1 on the system, configured the Xorg server etc... And in KDE I have no problems with the distortion in 1024x768 resolution. In the xorg.conf I just entered a range of vertical refresh rates going from 48 to 120 Hz. So I don't really know at which frequency it is running...
2. The sound: I emerged (just like I did on my other laptop which works fine) three packages of the advanced linux sound architecture like this;
Code:
emerge alsa-driver alsa-utils alsa-tools
Once they are merged into the system I know what to do but on this one laptop the compilation of the alsa-driver package fails with exit code 2 giving a comment (built-error) as follows;
Code:
/bin/sh: line 1: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [_modpost] Error 127
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r9'
make: *** [compile] Error 2
Now I don't even have the alsa-conf program and thus I am unable to configure my sound card as I want. I can't even add the alsa-sound into my default runlevel because he doesn't know it.
3. The tty/0: I've got absolutely no idea what is wrong, but if I press the CTRL+ALT+F1 combo (when in kdm, wich I set as the default displaymanager) then it simply refuses to go to my framebuffered tty... Anything else, like the next tty at F2 works perfectly fine...
4. The wificard: I've got a wificard on PCMCIA and I allready emerged the pcmcia-cs package at installation so that should be okay. But I can't figure out which module I have to load with modprobe. I allready did something like this;
Code:
ls /lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
I modprobed them all, nonetheless there still isn't any power going to my card, and thus remains undetected when I do a 'ifconfig -a' The card is a US Robotics 802.11g Wireless Turbo PC Card with model number USR5410...
Thus concluding; I've got these small problems and I hope one/some of you skilled linux users can help me with these... If you're reading this then I allready want to thank you for your intrest...
Friendly greetings,
SaMe
so the 'distortion' problem is solved... i needed to recompile the kernel with vesa support instead of the vesa-tng support... with the option vga=792 i can set the framebuffer in 1024x728-32...... ow the tty/0 problem is apperently a problem with the F1 key 
